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by crabmusket
760 days ago
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I think this is a really interesting equivalence to consider. I think the difference is highlighted when someone is able to answer a question with "I don't know" or "I can't tell you that". Interestingly, LLMs can be trained to answer that way in some circumstances. But if you're cunning enough, you can trick them into forgetting they don't know something. While a human may hallucinate memories, we crucially have the ability to know when we're relying on a memory. And to think of ways we could verify our memory, or acknowledge when that's not possible. |
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Maybe LLMs are narcissists, because there are people that have problems with it, though we'd consider them to have a disorder.
>we crucially have the ability to know when we're relying on a memory.
When it comes to eyewitness testimony, I'd counter that we aren't nearly as good at that as we give ourselves credit for. Remembering a memory changes the memory in our wetware.
In fact, I would say most of human development took eons until we started writing stuff down or documenting in a manner so we had a hard record of what the 'truth' was which then eventually turned into the scientific process of repeatability and verification.